Donald Trump announced Sunday that Republicans plan to dispense a large “Election Integrity Army” to every single state for the 2026 midterms – invoking his debunked claims that the United States does not have fair elections.
In a message on his Truth Social platform the president appeared to attribute his “Historic Election in 2024” to the fact that the Republican National Committee sent thousands of volunteers across the country to poll watch or assist with election litigation through a volunteer program.
Start organizing NOW. Get in touch with your local rapid response groups or other local orgs. Create a poll watch patrol and target high risk polling places. Report any suspicious people/activity, and response with people to protest and video it.
FYI it’s illegal to post soldiers at polling stations in the US
lol.
Are you ready to shoot over it? Because ain’t nobody saving us but us.
Yes, and they know it, but they don’t care. They believe in the might is right. People need to wake up. The rule of law is over.
If we can’t place our ballots, we’ll have to vote with bullets. Of course that’s what they think they want.
Show me one example of trump giving a fuck about the legality of something he wants
As an alternative we’ll accept someone holding him accountable for an illegal action.
It won’t be soldiers. It’ll be Proud Boys and your local bigot embracing the opportunity to harass women, minorities, LGBTQ (or people they assume are)… basically anyone that doesn’t look MAGA material. It’s an open call for mob intimidation under the auspices of “protecting election integrity”.
Armed law enforcement, military, or paramilitary would be an issue, but that’s not going to happen, despite their threats.
But local numbnuts like Proud Boys and such? Bring it on. I’m happy to bring a few extra baseball bats and construction implements to share with my friends.
But that won’t happen either. Proud Boy types are all cowards who need a gang, and we far outnumber them, and they know it. Notice we haven’t heard from them since Jan 6. They’ll show up to an Insurrection, with lots of support, but they won’t go anywhere where they’ll be outnumbered.
The polls will be fine on Election Day, but don’t use them unless you have to. All Lefties should do early voting (very convenient) or mail-in. Let the Traitors show up to intimidate their own cowardly voters.
We haven’t heard from them because they work for ice now. News about ice is news about Christian nationalists.
There’s about a dozen states that currently have “no excuse” requirements for absentee ballots, meaning you have to jump through hoops to be able to mail-in instead of vote in person. I’ll let you guess which side of the civil war most of these states were on.
One of my concerns about mail-in ballots, under this administration specifically, is the recent demand for state voter rolls. I’ve lost so much faith in election integrity that I no longer trust that the postal service isn’t an intercept for opposition ballots to get “misplaced”. Ballot tracking exists, but there’s enough bureaucracy that they could do anything from deliberately postmark it too late to acknowledge they received it but create some other excuse as to why it was invalid. Then it’s on you to fight to make it count but the system is stacked against you.
As for what I actually think poll harassment will look like? Less armed militia and more like thugs camped in front of a Planned Parenthood or the flag-waving goons who roll coal up and down the side streets when a protest is happening. They’ll make their presence known while tip-toeing interference but even if they cross the line your local PD knows which side they’re on and allows it but would swoop if leftists showed up to put themselves in-between the bullies and the people voting.
I think we should be planning how we can support our most vulnerable community members when it’s time to vote. It’s understandable if not everyone has the courage to potentially run a gauntlet of intimidation alone, and they shouldn’t have to to exercise their right. But this is currently the state of the US, and if people would feel safer with a group we should find ways to support and be there for them. Plus we should be watching for attempts to hide polling places, last minute relocations, and deliberate bureaucratic delay at the polls designed to turn what should be an in and out into a half day marathon people abandon because their lunch break is ending.
I agree with most of what you say, but we should still avail ourselves of whatever voting options we have, just to keep them alive, and to ease stress on the polling places on Election Day.
I agree about the potential for USPS to interfere with mail-in voting but that hurts MAGA more than anyone else. Older people, one of MAGAs most reliable demographics, use mail-in votes more than any other. Get rid of mail-ins, and you cut off a significant portion of the vote.
All of their suppression tactics are meant to have a single digit impact on voting, sometimes less, and they count on the cumulative effect of all their disparate strategies to give them the edge they need. They can’t afford to surrender any strategy that works in their favor.
As for Y’all Qaedas cruising past with giant Trump flags hanging off their tiny dick compensating trucks, who cares? Let them have their fun, it’s already falling apart, and it’s all going to come crashing down soon. Even if Dems can’t be courageous enough to destroy MAGA, MAGA will eventually destroy itself through it’s virtuosic incompetence.
My only challenge to your thoughts on the attitude about not giving a fuck about the hicks in their trucks trying to intimidate others. You are correct that a lot of them are blowhards, cowards, bullies, and don’t actually want confrontation unless they know they have an advantage. As a white, middle aged dude, I know I have the benefit of centuries of white male privilege and that I’m the kind of person most of these chumps aren’t going to do jack shit towards unless they have numbers. Unless I wear my “Nazi Lives Don’t Matter” shirt or some other leftist signaling attire, a lot of them probably assume I’m one of them.
What I don’t know however, is what it’s like to be a woman, a minority, a special needs person, an immigrant, or a trans person. I can listen to their experiences and concerns, try and put myself in their shoes, but I’ll never really know. Sometimes our ability to be able to ignore the bullies comes from the benefit of having the same privileges as the bullies. The goal should be to avoid slipping into white, male saviorism, but for lefties in America that have the privilege the system has built, use it to support those who don’t when we can while we work towards tearing it down together.
Extremely valid. Good post.
Legality doesn’t seem to be an issue for the current administration.
But ICE officers are fine - we’ll just let the roberts/thomas totally legitimate supreme court decide.
FYI that doesn’t matter anymore and isn’t going to magically course correct when they have nothing to fear from a dociled populace.
Lol following the law is rules for thee, not for me
More like “election preventing army”. Trump and the GOP can no longer afford free and democratic votes.
Well, we had the chance to save our democracy, and we blew it because of eggs. Say, how’s that affordability crisis looking nowadays?
Paid $4.50/gal for gas at a fucking Costco and my haircut costs 2 times what it did a year ago so I’d say Trump’s nailing it ~ elon
I just spent around $40 on two burgers, fries, and a shake at Five Guys… So bad. It’s looking bad.
But this would have happened no matter who won though since they’re both bought by AIPAC /s
Nah. Netanyahu has been trying to convince every US president for the last couple of decades, to do this…and this is the only time one of them has been stupid enough to fall for it.
Really… The world is watching you yankers. At this point. If the un is not controlling your election. We know it’s rigged. And you are completely useless. Won’t stand up for yourselves. And the sooner we convince our governments of this the best. The USA is over.
What exactly should random people living paycheck to paycheck do about our entire government being controlled by fascists?
We are already protesting and striking.
Our leaders have failed us. The good ones failed to stand up to the bad ones, and the bad ones are in charge now and control the media, the military, and the Supreme Court.
You want Dave from Burger King and Emmett from Starbucks to resort to guerilla warfare?
Should we be committing harkiri in the streets?
You think you’re angry?
Imagine being here, watching it happen face to face, arguing with a never ending army of brainwashed people who get off on cruelty because they’d rather burn it all down than let immigrants and trans people live in peace.
You want Dave from Burger King and Emmett from Starbucks to resort to guerilla warfare?
If we don’t purge MAGA from our government and our society, then Dave and Emmett are going to find their jobs replaced by robots, and the jobs they had aspired to beyond that, have been replaced by AI. There are no jobs for them, and never will be. The few human powered jobs left will be done by wealthy Nepo-Babies.
So Dave and Emmett are now part of the 60%+ permanent unemployment rate, which is actually higher, but the government games the stats to make it sound better, as if “only” 60% is acceptable.
So Dave and Emmett won’t have much choice but to fight in some way. Either they’ll fight in the Rebel Army in the Civil War, or they’ll fight to protect their family, but they’ll fight one way or another.
If they don’t, they’ll end up in the extermination camps, where MAGA deals with the lazy chronically unemployed who are dragging down our country.
To be honest, that’s what the American people have always done throughout history. When the elite got out of hand, the people revolted and successfully brought them down. So yes, Dave from Burger King should be there in the streets too. At the biggest anti-Trump protest the US had so far, only 2% of the American people were present. And those who were present waved signs for exactly one day and then went home. That is simply insufficient.
Apparently lie down and watch facism bloom. Y’all’ve already let it take root and flourish.
It turns out that this second amendment I keep hearing about was not worth the paper it’s written on either.
What did German citizens wish they’d done a hundred years ago?
Right, lay down. That’s what some of the largest protests in united states’ history are. Protests that are getting larger by the month. “Laying down”.
You aren’t in any position to criticise, keyboard warrior.
Not just some of the largest, the largest. No Kings makes up the top three
I think a lot of people don’t realize just how gigantic the US is and how much of a logistical nightmare it is to organize nation wide things, and how relatively little small groups of people can do to the federal government
The criticism of not starting soon enough is valid; this kind of mass action should have happened earlier. But it is happening now and people like the mentioned keyboard warrior dismissing that are hindering not helping
Complications to organize are part of the problem too. We need people who devote themselves to enabling protestors, organizing alliances, … people who are able to get online like Anonymous did back in the day, using voice transpositions and face masks, making threats to do some wild shit if need be. Do you guys remember when Anonymous made threats to shut down the internet if a bill got passed?
We barely need people to coordinate explicitly. Anonymous is actually a pretty good example, now that I think about it. They were completely unorganized. You were Anonymous if you claimed to be Anonymous. You made demands from the shadows, executed plans in secrecy, and claimed credit again from the shadows. People see this and catch on, eventually mimicking your framework under the same name “Anonymous.”
Earth Day, 1970, 20 million. Latest No Kings was 8 million. But still, No Kings accounts for 3 of the top 4.
As to starting earlier, you said yourself it’s a logistical nightmare. I would argue people got organised PDQ, all things considered.
Maybe it’s time for you Muricans to stop protesting the Murican way and learn a little bit from 1, your own history circa 250 years ago 2, french history from roughly the same period
Not sure the French Revolution is the best example given what happened immediately afterwards
No, it’s not time, yet.
What amateur foreign “advisors” don’t understand is that we have at least two important Constutional checkpoints to get through first - the 2026 Midterm Election, and the 2028 Presidential Election. Those are our final two opportunities to turn this nation around, and ALL indications are that they will go the right way, and with courage and decisive action from our elected leaders, we can still save America. We owe our nation, our Constitution, and our history, to do this properly, by the book.
But that’s a big “IF.” MAGA will make sure it doesn’t go smoothly, and cause as much trouble as they can. They will do literally anything to remain in power, including cancelling elections. We have NEVER cancelled an election and n this country, not during WWII, not even during the Civil War. That is a BRIGHT RED LINE that they cannot cross. If they attempt to cancel elections, it’s INSTANT Civil War.
So we will try to do it by the book, and let our elections do the talking, but MAGA is the world’s greatest chaos agent, and they will definitely make it difficult. No matter what they attempt, we must stay on the legal Constutional path until that journey is either completed or forcibly removed.
Very, very interesting that you’re advocating for civil war. I wonder whose interests that could possibly serve.
When tyrants don’t leave on their own accord, what are you to do? Protest even harder while they laugh from their helicopters and private jets, surrounded by private security, isolating themselves from the people they try to rule? What good will protesting harder do?
The protests have grown by a million people with every event, give or take. They show the people who have a problem with this shit that they’re not alone, and more and more people have a problem with all this. The protests show the people in power right now that we are not going to lay down and take it, like you lot want to keep saying we are.
And, what does protesting actually accomplish? In Nazi Germany, it got 1,800 Jewish prisoners released: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenstrasse_protest
So if you really want these fuckers gone as badly as the rest of us, how about you take your defeatist crap and keep it at home with you? It’s not helping anyone except the fascists.
The problem with all your American bullshit is that it leaks out into the rest of the world and fucks it up too.
Yes, collateral damage is to be expected when a superpower gets destabilised. Why are you ignoring the fact that there was documented election interference on a massive scale? Why are you ignoring the total takeover of our government by hostile actors? Are you trying to paper over all of that for some particular purpose?
Moreover, you’re mostly addressing the victims of the fascists here. We’re not actually in charge of the country right now.
Why [am I] ignoring…
Oh, I’ll just post a million word essay enumerating everything wrong with the USA.
Or you could stop doing the work of the fascists, but I think you like the kool-aid too much for that. Feels good talking down to people being killed for resisting, does it? You’re as bad as the people you claim to hate, you just can’t see it.
Don’t worry, most people grow into empathy eventually, we all develop at different rates.
Disobedience is the key, it would have worked back in Germany and it would work today. Teach your children political disobedience, because not enough adults know how anymore.
It turns out the answer, as always, look elsewhere for examples. You want to see how to actually run a great country, look at literally every other developed nation besides the US. Want to see how to counter fascism, look outside the US…oh and open a history book for once in your fucking life, stop being so ignorant and illiterate like all our peers here, our illiteracy rates and comprehension abilities are genuinely some of the worst on the planet.
“Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it” is supposed to be cautionary, but for MAGA, it’s a game plan.
Hey buddy, are you in the west? Because the last I checked, not a single western nation has actually economically and politically pariahed the United States. You work on your government, many here are doing about all we can short of throwing our lives away and we could use more support.
THANK YOU! I get that, from the outside looking in, it looks like we aren’t doing anything; but short of open rebellion, we don’t have many options that don’t leave us, at best, homeless. And the “at best” scenario is increasingly the least likely outcome. When the GOP gains seats in the house this November, the latter part of this year could get interesting.
In the meantime, everyone watching is repeatedly punching ourselves in the national crotch, needs to be putting as much pressure as they can on their elected representatives not to treat the US as a pariah, but to pressure it to fall back into some semblance of sanity. Treating the US as a pariah will do exactly what nobody except Trump and Putin want - the unholiest of unholy alliances (outside of Bibi & Trump, that is). A New Axis (and they’ll probably call it that because they don’t know what irony is) for the world to deal with.
If this “army” is anything like ICE we all know what that means: voter intimidation and violence.
MAGA is attacking election integrity from several ends. We always knew this was going to happen if he gets re-elected. And with “we” I mean not enough people to matter, apparently.
Time to use those 2A rights y’all yanks always scream about.
A bunch of failsons with a fourth grade reading level patrolling polling stations with AR-15s. What could be more American than that?
People stopping the gravy seals from fucking with voters. I will be doing my (probably) non-violent part.
History rarely repeats, but it often rhymes.
Aren’t midterm primaries like next week?
